Nov 4, 2018

Daily brief for 2018-11-03

ASIA

  1. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. SamSam ransomware continues to make damages. Call it targeted Ransomware

WORLD

  1. BBC micro:bit vendor Kitronik says customers' deets nicked, fingers Magecart malware
  2. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  3. SamSam ransomware continues to make damages. Call it targeted Ransomware
  4. "The resurgence of #VPNFilter #botnet appears to be limited to the Ukraine, but given the ease of infecting targeted systems,

ATTACKS

  1. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Business Email Compromise: Must-Have Defenses
  3. Radisson Suffers Global Loyalty Program Data Breach
  4. Android Devices Remain Unsecured, While Two Botnets Fight For Dominance
  5. Discover how #NetSpectre attacks leak data remotely via side-channels with Michael Cobb of @thehairyITdog.
  6. New Trickbot Malware Steal Password & Other Sensitive Data From Microsoft Outlook,Chrome,Firefox, IE, Edge

THREATS

  1. The Responsible Disclosure of Software Vulnerabilities in the Nutshell
  2. Web domain owners paid EasyDNS to cloak their contact info from sight. It was blabbed via public Whois anyway
  3. BBC micro:bit vendor Kitronik says customers' deets nicked, fingers Magecart malware
  4. Blockchain as a Tool for Cybersecurity
  5. .@Siemens central plant clocks were affected by six SICLOCK flaws, three have been rated "critical." Learn what these SICLOCK flaws
  6. Six flaws were recently found in @Siemens SICLOCK central plant clocks. Learn what these clocks do, which clocks were infected
  7. SamSam ransomware continues to make damages. Call it targeted Ransomware
  8. Gotta love how Robert Tappan Morris describes his Morris worm background in his bio: ”In 1988 his discovery of buffer
  9. New Trickbot Malware Steal Password & Other Sensitive Data From Microsoft Outlook,Chrome,Firefox, IE, Edge
  10. Researchers say #Bleedingbit vulnerabilities could allow #RemoteCodeExecution on wireless access points, medical devices and any other products using the affected
  11. #SamSam #ransomware targeted 67 organizations in 2018, according to @symantec research. By @MaddieBacon11
  12. #Kraken #ransomware as a service is getting more popular after being bundled into the Fallout #ExploitKit and getting more update
  13. The Week in Ransomware - November 2nd 2018 - RaaS, DiskCryptor, & More

CRIME

  1. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Business Email Compromise: Must-Have Defenses
  3. Radisson Suffers Global Loyalty Program Data Breach

POLITICS

  1. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Android Devices Remain Unsecured, While Two Botnets Fight For Dominance
  3. SamSam ransomware continues to make damages. Call it targeted Ransomware